Case Studies

Unisy New Zealand

Technology: Legal Publishing/XML & Specifications

Although, truly an XML Systems Integration project, our work with Unisys New Zealand shows eGloo's capability to participate in a large-scale project within a global environment and to deliver our milestones on-time and within budget.

eGloo provides specialist technical consultancy in relation to the PAL project (Public Access to Legislation) for the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO). More information on the PAL project can be viewed at www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/pal.

We assisted Unisys New Zealand in 2001 to prepare its successful bid to win this multi-million dollar contract. We have since assisted Unisys in their dealings with other potential and actual sub-contractors, we have an on-going role to liaise with, and facilitate between, PCO, the NZ Inland Revenue Dept, the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Brookers Legal Publishers, and others.

We provide specialised advice and technical expertise relating to XML based processes for the drafting and consolidation of NZ legislation, which has involved the preparation of User and Functional Requirements Specifications and other analysis documents and discussion papers.

We have also led a small team to undertake specialised analysis of legislation formats and structures, and have been responsible for XML DTD design and on-going maintenance of the DTDs. We also provide advice on the process of data acquisition of the current New Zealand Statutes in XML.

eGloo Technologies is responsible for data migration of a large body of Bills, and draft legislative material and other work in progress, from a variety of formats into XML.

As a sub-contractor, eGloo has worked within overall time frames determined by the prime contractor. Those components of the project that have been undertaken to date by eGloo have all been delivered within the specified time frames. The costing model of this project has been complex, several components were delivered according to fixed price schedules; data conversion components were delivered to a price schedule based on document numbers and size; general consultancy has been delivered according to hourly rates.

The PAL project has an extensive series of deliverable components across a broad timeframe that began in 2002 and is scheduled to continue into 2008.